Fight or Flight
Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire
Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians, soldiers, settlers and writers who promised in word and print at this time to defend their colonial possessions at all costs is a long one. Yet, within twenty years both empires had almost completelydisappeared.The collapse was cataclysmic. Peaceable 'transfers of power' were eclipsed by episodes of territorial partition and mass violence whose bitter aftermath still lingers. Hundreds…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-166408-3
- EAN: 9780191664083
- Produktnummer: 16938893
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'109 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 black & white halftones, 11 maps
Über den Autor
Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History in the Department of History at the University of Exeter, where he has taught since 2003. He founded the University's Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, which supports research into the impact of armed conflict on societies and communities. He is a past winner of a Philip Leverhulme prize for outstanding research and a holder of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. He has published widely ontwentieth century French and imperial history, including The French Empire between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society (2005), Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 (2007, with L.J. Butler and Bob Moore), Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's ImperialStates, 1918-1975 (2008), and most recently Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012).
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